"How long can we grow this subject before dismembering it to get useful cells?"

Machine-learning. Big plans.

Great design.

Fascinating follow-up to last Tuesday's Part I post on stenting v. bypass surgery and what it implies about the future of centralized healthcare. "How do cardiologists (or any other well-educated, intelligent individuals) get to the point where they are able to act primarily in their own best interests, while insisting to everyone - even to themselves - that they are actually acting in the best interests of others?"

Christopher Lawton in the Wall Street Journal via The Health 2.0 Blog.

Ominous: The "transition to personal responsibility and accountability will probably take place in healthcare sooner or later ... And, the members of the healthcare establishment, working together with Federal and State Government, have the power to drive this change."

Overview of dominating standards.

"I am more worried about the bias I cannot detect but I know is there."

The limitations of brain scan research. "I'm feeling a very large error-related negativity at the moment. Maybe I need a Xanax. Or a religious experience..."

"For insurers who want to outsource, the main question is how to convince patients to hop a 25-hour flight for a triple bypass."